The Most Savage Book Reviews of All Time

The Most Savage Book Reviews of All Time

This Week on The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | September 14, 2020

Did a Revolution in Latin American Publishing Make <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em> the Success It Is Today?

Did a Revolution in Latin American Publishing Make One Hundred Years of Solitude the Success It Is Today?

Álvaro Santana-Acuña on the Latin American and Spanish Booms of the 1960s

By Álvaro Santana-Acuña | September 11, 2020

Why I Walked Away From <em>War and Peace</em>... Forever

Why I Walked Away From War and Peace... Forever

John Maher on Lost Love, Broken Hearts, and Tolstoy

By John Maher | September 11, 2020

Daniel Mendelsohn on How Greek Tragedy Speaks to Our Present Moment

Daniel Mendelsohn on How Greek Tragedy Speaks to Our Present Moment

From the Quarantine Tapes Podcast with Paul Holdengraber

By The Quarantine Tapes | September 11, 2020

Our Idea of Wagner Tells Us More About Ourselves Than About Him

Our Idea of Wagner Tells Us More About Ourselves Than About Him

Olivia Giovetti on Alex Ross's New Book About the Composer

By Olivia Giovetti | September 10, 2020

5 Books You May Have <br>Missed in August

5 Books You May Have
Missed in August

Bethanne Patrick Recommends Escapist Literature

By Bethanne Patrick | September 10, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • The Hitch
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

Remembering Timothy Findley on His Home Ground

By Sherrill Grace | September 10, 2020

Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam, read by Ethan Herisse

By Behind the Mic | September 10, 2020

11 Great Books You Probably Haven't Read (But Should)

By Emily Temple | September 9, 2020

Daniel Mendelsohn Makes a Powerful Case for the<br> Art of Digression

Daniel Mendelsohn Makes a Powerful Case for the
Art of Digression

The Author of Three Rings talks to John Freeman About Homer, Storytelling, and More

By John Freeman | September 9, 2020

Five Years Later: On the Enduring Legacy of <em>All American Boys</em>

Five Years Later: On the Enduring Legacy of All American Boys

And Why Its Authors, Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely Wish It Would Go Out of Print

By Katy Hershberger | September 9, 2020

On Albery Allson Whitman, Radical Black Poet of the Reconstruction

On Albery Allson Whitman, Radical Black Poet of the Reconstruction

A 19th-Century Vision of Black and Native American Resistance

By Matt Sandler | September 9, 2020

Before the Essay, the Lecture: Nonfiction's Lost Performative

Before the Essay, the Lecture: Nonfiction's Lost Performative

Mary Cappello Takes up a Question Virginia Woolf Once Asked

By Mary Cappello | September 9, 2020

The Magic of Everyday Life is Preserved in Ganda Folklore

The Magic of Everyday Life is Preserved in Ganda Folklore

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi on the Rich Oral Traditions
of Her People

By Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi | September 9, 2020

Why It's Worth Reading T.S. Eliot's <em>The Waste Land</em> (Even When It's a Slog)

Why It's Worth Reading T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (Even When It's a Slog)

This Week on The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | September 8, 2020

<em>The Death of Vivek Oji</em> by Akwaeke Emezi, read by Yetide Badaki and Chukwudi Iwuji

The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi, read by Yetide Badaki and Chukwudi Iwuji

An Impressive Production of an Unforgettable Audiobook

By Behind the Mic | September 8, 2020

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